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Apr 6, 2015

New fully 3d printed DIY speaker by Ted Kessler

Ted Kessler published overview and testing of his fully 3d printed speaker.

He writes:

This is an experiment in inventing a new tone as a tool for musicians. Speakers were invented between the 1860s-70s and have more or less been constructed with the same materials since. There was something interesting to me about reproducing a classic design with a cutting-edge technology and modern materials, so I did that.

As the speaker's utilitarian and scientific roles have been fulfilled for decades and are now used as art tools, I wanted to treat them as art tools.

The printed parts were done on a consumer-level Rigidbot FFF printer.There's still development to be done on this project and I look forward to it!For more info on the history of speakers: edisontechcenter.org/speakers.html